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Synplant has an average user rating of 5.00 from 5 reviews

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Synplant

Reviewed By Tagirijus [all]
December 30th, 2021
Version reviewed: 1.2.4 on Windows

A very bizarre yet cool synthesizer with a new approach to "designing synths sounds".

Pros:

  • Easy to understand workflow / handling.
  • Can sound very good and clean and organic.
  • Unbelievable low on CPU, seriously low.
  • Never crashed so far.
  • Is inspiring, since it's not a common way to get / create synthy sounds.
  • Still in development, as far as I know; also Sonic Charge is very responsive via mail and their forum, which is also a big plus.

Things could be a bit better, in my opinion:

  • The principle of preset designing could be taken even further, imo. E.g. having different aspects of the sound character to be randomized instead of the whole sound at once.
  • The price might be a bit high for what it is, but in the end - as far as I know at least - the future versions are included for now. This might change, according to what I've read in the Sonic Charge forums, but in the end it's cool to know. So this is no real pro or con point tbh. :D.
  • One review said that the preset system is good. Well to me it's not that good. It is good indeed to be able to click on a preset and directly be able to play it. This happens in the systems open dialogue box, though. So what might be missing is some kind of tagging functionality to better search through presets. The way it is now is: click and play and see if this sound fits. With THIS specific synth, it's no biggies, while the principle is to generate new random sounds anyway. So it's okay to me.
  • New random sounds are often a bit too bizarre and not usable to me. Rather experimental, but this might also be a matter of taste or genre. I tested other random synths in the last weeks and Synplant indeed does a really good job in the end compared to ther synths, which generate random presets. So again: it's a rather subjective con point here again. And also not 100% negative.
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Comments & Discussion for Sonic Charge Synplant

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Greg Houston
Greg Houston
21 September 2013 at 7:22am

Would likely buy it if it were 64-bit.

sokoleski
sokoleski
13 November 2013 at 12:33am

YES, 64-bit now please =D.

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snigelx
snigelx
9 January 2014 at 3:05am

Excellent work, Philipp! Thank you :) Early morning here and just reclining to a low-beat Plant 79, 3-ball pattern and watching the MIDI go by....in a slow..hazy...daze ;)

lostnthesound
lostnthesound
11 April 2014 at 6:44pm

For those who didn't get the word yet, Synplant is now 64-bit with the free 1.2 update. :-)

skepsys82
skepsys82
16 October 2015 at 9:03am

its a good product and has no competition as far as i could find, but the price is not accurate. it's $99 plus vat, which makes it about $123. 99 does sound more attractive, but it's not what you actually pay.

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skepsys82
skepsys82
16 October 2015 at 9:35am

99 + 23.76 = 122.76.

thatz the actual price.

stardustmedia
stardustmedia
16 October 2015 at 9:58am

My bad, misread your reply...

That's just common practice. Ugly, but common. Since a long time. Every country has different VAT and online shopping is global, you can't show a huge list of (how many countries are there? 150?) different prices.

skepsys82
skepsys82
16 October 2015 at 10:08am

when checking out, the vat and thus the correct total price is shown, so the technical capability to do so exists. why then not replace the purchase button with a button that actually shows the correct price? it is because 99 does sound better then the actual price, psychologically more appealing. on eastwest quantum leap orchestra the price you see is what you pay, no extra taxes. being a digital product, the seller does not have more expenses to ship it digitally to romania then to ireland - it;s digital, nothing is different - so why should i be made to pay 24%, and someone less then that? i dont see the logic. it's the same product, and nobody actually ships it to me physically, we both get just a link or code as a result of the purchase, yet im supposed to pay more than you (by you i mean another buyer).

stardustmedia
stardustmedia
16 October 2015 at 11:08am

Yes, it could be technically possible. The IP tells you where the user is from. But I don't think it's trivial.

I checked EW and their prices are VAT included. But it's not the VAT I have to pay. During check out it shows you then the price without VAT, that would be MY actual price. You have to track all the different VAT, they also may change.

It's definitely more attractive to show the lower price. I just know I have to pay a little extra. That doesn't bother me.

skepsys82
skepsys82
16 October 2015 at 11:36am

i further checked this and it seems it's something that changed regarding tva since 1 jaunary 2015 in all e.u. states, so it seems to be recent. i purchased ewql 2 years ago and that might be why i didnt notice this. still, the site says 99 bucks, and i have to pay 123 almost. you might be ok with it, but to me, although i find it's still worth it, 123 is certainly not just a little more than 99 but it is a lot more. any way you put it, it's still deceiving, im shown a price when in the description page of the product, and when i actually go for the buy, im shown another bigger price. someone buying from luxembourg pays 17% vat, like if it wasnt already enough that its one of the most wealthiest countries in the world anyway, they just had to pay less somehow :| and i have tp pay 24%, being from second poorest country in e.u. (romania). how is this fair? if any, it should have been the other way around.

stardustmedia
stardustmedia
16 October 2015 at 11:08am

PS: When you check out you already gave them your country. To show the correct price already in the shop is more difficult.

skepsys82
skepsys82
16 October 2015 at 11:37am

might be more difficult, but wouldnt it be more transparent and correct towards the buyer?

stardustmedia
stardustmedia
16 October 2015 at 11:50am

Yes, but I think that's the wrong place to discuss that ;)

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chaosWyrM
chaosWyrM
16 October 2015 at 6:25pm

$99 even for me, so pricing is accurate...but im in the united states.

i dont see the reason for complaining...it clearly states +vat.

at least they dont jack the price for us users with a fake vat...like some devs do.

skepsys82
skepsys82
19 October 2015 at 6:55pm

i did end up buying it after all, but i wouldve liked it if i knew the correct price before i made plans to buy it, not after, when i was already decided...in any case, the product is fun and easy to use, i cant deny that. and i feel its worth even the sum i paid in the end...just that it would have been more transparent if the actual price was posted on the site instead of the ambiguous (now, since january 2015 e.u. vat measures) 99 dollars.

larslentz
larslentz
6 September 2017 at 11:07am

You can get a great vintage (Boards of Canada -like) sound out of this synthesizer and I made some presets for it https://gum.co/synplantvintage. Overall I really like this synth even though the controls and stuff are unconventional, to say the least.

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